The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-05 00:00:00

TEE SOUTHEB,N CONFEDERACY. (From the Times' Special Correspondent.) RICHMOND, Oct. 8. Upon the Ist inst. one of those casualties which have attracted to the port of Wilmington, the sea gate of the Confederacy, a degree of notice never accorded to this insignificant town during all its previous years of existence, startled this community almost as much as the explosion of Grant's harm• less mine at Petersburg two months before. At 3 in the morning of the let a blockade running steamer, named the Condor, the property of Mr Alex. Collie, of London, while attempting to enter the mouth of the Cape Fear River, had the misfortune, thanks to her blundering pilot, to run aground on the breakers, within 200 or 300 yards of the Confederate guns in Fort Fisher. The Condor was a new three funnelled stet' neer, superbly adapted for her trade, with great carrying capacity, drawing only seven feet of water, and swift as a sea swallow. She was approaching Wilmington on her first inward trip, and brought out from Greenock, whence she sailed in August Let, several English and Confederate passengers, and among them a lady named Mrs Greenhow, well known on this continent as having, at the commence ment of the war, conducted a spirited correspon denee with Mr Seward at Washington, and as hav ing been imprisoned by that autocratic attorney. Mrs Greenhow had passed many months in England previous to sailing in the Condor, and was returning to share the increasing perils of her own country. After the Condor took the ground a Yankee vessel was seen approaching through the gloom, with a view to shelling or boarding the stranger. Mrs Greenhow, remembering her former imprisonment in Washington, and apprehensive of its repetition, insisted, against the advice of the captain, on having a boat lowered, and upon trusting herself to the ten der mercies of the waves rather than to those of the Yankees. Into this heat she carried with her the mail bags, and Prof. Holcombe, whom the Condor had picked up at Halifax, and whose name was last summer brought before the public in connexion with Mr Greeley's abortive negotiations with a view to peace, which were entered into at Niagara Falls. To the pilot, who had just run the Condor aground, was committed the delicate task of steering Mrs Greenhow's boat, which was lowered into a raging surf. Directly the boat left the leeside of the vessel . she was caught, broadside on, by a huge breaker, and overturned. All the male passengers succeeded in clambering up and clutching the keel of the cap siied boat, but in the darkness and amid the deaf ening thunder of the breakers nothing was seen or heard of poor Mrs Greenhow. Her body was subs erquently washed ashore near Fort Fisher, and close beside it a heavy leather reticlue, containing 2,000 dols in gold, which was believed to have been slung round her neck when the boat was upset. It is a strange proof of the strength of that boisterous sea that such a weighty article as this reticule should not have sunk, but should have been tossed up on the beach like a bit of seaweed. Upon the afternoon of the 2d Mrs Greenhow's body was committed to the grave at 'Wilmington, according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church. A general feeling of gloom in connexion with the thought of the high hopes with which Mrs Greenhow returned to her native land, and of her having been tossed, a life. less corpse, upon its inhospitable strand, has per vaded this community, which at this sad moment remembers only how zealous and enthusiastic was her devotion to the Confederacy. I cannot forbear touching upon another incident connected with the port at Wilmington. Upon the night preceding the wreck of the Condor, another English vessel, named the Night Hawk, ran ashore within 20 yards of the spot where the Condor was subsequently stranded. The Yankees, with an au dacity which seems (so far as the blockading squad* ron cif Wilmington is concerned) to be on the ins crease, sent a boat to board and fire the Night Hawk, although she lay within canister range of Fort Fisher. The crew of the Yankee boat could scarcely have exceeded 25 or 30 men ; there most have been 60 persons on board the Night Hawk, when she tan eground. Of these, some 20 escaped to land in one of the boats. Immediately that the Yankees boarded the unresisting commercial vessel, which lay wholly at their mercy, they set to work, crying, "No quarter," slashing upon all sides with their cutiasees, and firing promiscuously with their re- T0:V31 . 9. The two engineers were instantly but chered, the chief engineer's head having been bisected by the stroke of a cutlass, and several other persons are said to have been wounded by Pistol shots, The vessel was fired at the stem and stern, and inasmuch as Fort Fisher gave some signs of liio by throwing up a rocket, and inasmuch as there was a rumour of gunpowder on board the doomed vessel, the Yankees, as cowardly where there seemed to be danger as they had been ruf fianly where there was no resistance, took to their boat, leaving some half (keen hapless victims on board the blazing vessel, to be burnt, blown np, or drowned, as the case might be. Fortunately the flames, after burning a day and a half, were distin guished, chiefly by the agency of the captain and crew of the Falcon (another of Mr Collie's vessels), and the boilers and machinery of the Nights Hawk were uninjured. She will probably, within a few days cr weeks, issue forth from Wilmington with her fall cargo of cotton on board. But my object in mentioning this incident is to ask your readers whether they are able to discern any difference be tween the conduct of the 'Yankee boat crew and that of the inhuman fiends who man the piratical craft which issue from the island of Formosa and assail becalmed and defenceless commercial vessels in the Chinese seas. I was under the impression that in ternational law prescribes that the penalty of running the blockade is not that those engaged in this trade should be butchered unresistingly, bat that their vessels,if captured, should be forfeited to the captors. But it seems that the Federals, many of whom have asserted in my hearing that the civilisation of New York and Boston is equal, if not superior, to that of Paris and London, think there is no disgrace in butchering unarmed and unresisting men. There is little hope that a Government which has shown such forbearance—it may be wise forbearance, al though it is hard to witness the inhumanities of this war, and to think so—as ours will be aroused even to the utterance of a feeble remonstrance by such inci dents as this; but it is worthy the consideration of those English captains who engage in the blockade running trade whether it would not be wise to arm their crews with muskets and cutlasses, solely with a view to preventing their vessels being boarded, if aground, by a handful of Yankees, who, they find an unarmed crew on board, are likely to emulate the atrocities of the Chinese buccaneers, and to slash and slay because there is no more danger from their victims than Nero anticipated from the files which he transfixed. I am happy to report a far more confident feeling in Richmond than existed at the date of my last letter. It cannot be denied that when upon the 29:h of September it was discovered in Richmond that Grant was advancing upon the city with two army corps One 10th and 18th), and that Lee had only a handful of troops to resist the Federals, a feeling closely akin to panic possessed this com munity. It is the only instance of panic which, in coma experience in Richmond, I can recollect. But the city slowly and sternly recovered itself, and it is nothing less than justice to an unpopular man to say that no one in Richmond displayed such firmness and presence of mind, and developed such resources at the moment of the greatest menace, as Gen. Bragg. la many of my previous letters I have pointed out to your readers the true disadvantages of Lee's pesition as compared with Grant's. As a general illustration it may be said that Lee is en the arc, Grant on the sherd, of a circle ; but as this expression does not exactly define the position of the two armies, whose lines (extending each of them over a length of 3' ) miles) do not pursue any uni form coarse or inclination, I will endeavour, at the rick of repeating what I have described many ti mes before, to make my meaning clearer. Your readers will understand that, in such an attitude as is occu pied by the armies of Lee and Grant, the army which takes the initiative and acts on the aggres sive hes an immense advantage. Lee is like a skil ful one-armed prize fighter, fighting a big bully with two arms, stronger, taller, more active, and keener-sighted than himself. The most tempting and promising opportunities offer themselves to him every day. He cannot afford to hazard even 20 live& in a tentative operation. The fact of his great nume rical inferiority to his enemy, and that he it tethered down and forced to keep always u large portion of his army before Petersburg, are disadvantages equivalent to the loss of an arm lehe u prizefighter. Grant, on the other hand, has, in the eyes of those who rightly survey the ground, such advantages as make it astonishing that, in the four months be tween the 12th June, when he crossed the James River, and the present time, he should have made so little use of them. In his centre lies the James River, with its dozens of Yankee gunboats and monitors, covering the Federal base of operations, and making it even unapproachable by General Lee, It is doubtless with a view to getting still more out of these monitors that General Butler is attempt ing to cut a canal through Dutch Gap, into which he hopes to tempt the James River. It is not thought here, I may say par parenthese, that any advantage will result to Butler's comrades from this canal, even if, contrary to Federal experience at Vicksburg, it proves a success. By means of the pontoon bridges which connect Bermuda Hundred with Deep Bot tom, Grant can throw any number of men by night or day to the north or south of the James. IC is almost impossible for Lee to know if Grant's des monstrations, whether they threaten Richmond on the extreme Federal right, or the South side rail road on the extreme Federal left, are feints or realities. On the other hand, from the configura tion of the ground, it is almost impossible for Lee to cut Grant's extended lines in any vital place. The most tempting place to assail those lines would be somewhere not far from the spot where Grant's mine was sprung. But the shape of the ground and the position of the forest is such that the lines can only be attacked at two or three confined spots, and here naturally Grant has defended himself with triple tiers of fortifications, and keeps always strong bodies of men in position. But the greatest of all advantages is the following :—From the 4th of May up to the present hour Lee's army has been con tinuously in the trenches, either actually under fire or at any rate not knowing at what moment it might not be attacked by a savage and multitudinous foe. The Confederates have been fighting or on the rack without intermission for more than five months. On the other hand, the Federal General, who knew from the beginning that Lee was, through the paucity of his numbers, restricted to acting on the defensive, had it in his power at any moment to give four-fifths of his army an entire rest. There was nothing to prevent Grant's saying on August 1, " I shall want great efforts from you on the 20th of this month ; rest and recruit yourselves until that day." On the contrary, for 160 days Lee's troops have known no rest, either by night or day. We all re member how the work in the trenches told upon our officers and privates in the Crimea ; it cannot be wondered that a far more uninterrupted pressure for more than five months should have told fear fully upon the poor Confederates, exposed to one of the fiercest summers ever known in Virginia, scans lily fed upon meat—mostly salt meet—and bread, without vegetables, with only occasional coffee, with no other stimulant, and threatened ceaselessly by overwhelming numbers, who have at their command all that a lavish profusion of expenditure and the scientific experience of the whole civilised world can contribute. I cannot be blind to the fact, as I meet officers and privates from Gen. Lee's army, that they are half learn cut, and that, though the spirit is the same as eve 2, they urgently need rest. lam in hopes that during the coming winter this rest will not be denied to them, as Lee's army becomes stronger ; but bo that as it may, I am convinced, when the true history of the Confederate campaign of 1864 in Virginia is written, it will record a struggle unsurpassed in heroism and in the patience and self denying endurance of 'the troops since the time when blood was first spilt upon the earth, and man first lifted his hand in anger against his bro ther. There is one plan by which, at the price cf the bricks and mortar of Petersburg, General Lee might curtail the existing peolongation of his lines, might assume a much stronger defensive position, and considerably increase the difficulties of his oppo nent. That this plan will be adopted if occasion requires is by no means improbable, but so long as Gen. Lee feels himself strong enough to hold and protect Petersburg as well as Richmond ho will cons tinue to cling to both. If he gave up the town of Petersburg, and fell back upon the western and higher bank of the Appomattox, holding the heights of Pccahontas, which girdle Petersburg on the west and north, his strength for defence would be much greater; but he would have in some measure to give the little city up to its assailants, much in the same fashion as Fredericksburg was gives up to the Federals while the Confederates held Marye's Heights. It has often been argued by wise military heads that this would be a judicious step, but expe rience has shown to what misery the inhabitants of towns surrendered to the enemy are reduced, and to this misery Gen. Lee will not consent that Peters burg shall be exposed, if he can prevent it. My own impression is that the success or failure which may follow Hood's daring move in Georgia (of which I spoke in my last letter) will govern the operations of Grant against Richmond. The reciprocity and mutuality which have always existed between the various armies of the Federals on the one hand and of the Confederates on the other, in the East and \Vest, were never more apparent than at this me. ment. If the Confederates maintain their present attitude before Richmond, and continue to hold their enemy back until, as is here anticipated, a great disaster has overtaken Sherman in the West, I do not scruple to say that, in my opinion, Richmond will laugh its assailants to scorn. IF, on the other hand, Sherman is able to extricate himself from his present critical position, by either beating or out witting Hood, there will be reason for apprehension about Richmond during the coming winter the like of which has never existed before. Meantime, there is every reason to think that Grant, electioneering and "pipe-laying" for Mr Lin coln after a fashion never dreamt of, will afford us lively times between this date and the end of the pre sent month. There is, in my belief, little reason to apprehend that Richmond is threatened with immi' nent and immediate danger. The operations of General Grant are likely to be of the same guarded and stealthy character as the approach of the Red Indian when about to attack the camp of a Western squatter. It is evident that the main strength of the Federal forces is concentrated at the two ends of the Federal lines, or, in other words, at the salient in the immediate neighbourhood of Chaffin's Bluff, which was lately taken by the Federals, and which is called Fort Harrison; and, secondly, at a point close to the Weldon Railroa'll, which is called Fort Msßae. Your readers are aware that three sepa rate efforts (none of them considerable efforts) have been made by General Lee to retake Fort Harrison, , but hitherto without success. It cannot be denied that the proximity of Fort Harrison to Chaffin's Bluff (which is to the northern bank of the James River what Drewry'a Bluff or Fort Darling is to the southern bank) is an inconvenience to General Lee, which is likely to be increased when General Grant has ccmpieted the bombproofs and casements which, in spite of incessant Confederate shelling, he is said to be there erecting. But lam assured that Gen. Lee has in contemplation, or perhaps in course of execution, a plan of which I can at present say no more than that it will considerably interfere with the probably programme of Grant. On the whole, it is impossible not to take a more cheerful view of the Confederate prospects in Vir ginia than it was proper to entertain at the close of the last month. At this moment lam ex cluding from my mind all thought of the operations in Georgia, which, with or without reason, are regarded as likely to exercise great inflaence taper) tt-e fortunes of Grant. But it must not bc:, forgotten that all the apprehensions lately enter tained about the operations of the Federals through out Virginia centre at this instant in the army of General Grant, It is evident that the valley cam paign of G enera l Sheridan is a total failure; and General Burb r id ge , advancing against the Con!'ede rate saltworks in South-Western Virginia, has been utterly defeated by General Echols. Grant is the supreme hope of the Federals ; with the discomfi ture of Grant, whether brought about by an unsuc cessful attack of his own or by the hopelessness which would seize his army it Shcrrnan were routed in Georgia, falls the stately fabric of Northern hopes and expectations, No one can doubt that if Sherman is routed in Georgia, and Grant held im• potently at bay until Christmas in Virginia, it will be impossible for Mr Stanton and his myrmidons to get together such an army as will be adequate to the commencement of another spring campaign in 1565. The darkest hour of the night is proverbially that which immediately precedes the dawn; and it is not, in my judgment, unreasonable to expect that this hour of gloom through which the Confederates are now passing—the darkest and profoundest which I have ever witnessed—is the herald of a day about to arise with healing on its wings, which will re store to this distracted and sorely troubled the blessings, once so lightly esteemed, of tranquillity and peace. OCTOBER 12. Ia many previous letters I have remarked that a knowledge of the histoire inedite of the Western Confederate Army during the last three years is indispensable to a right understanding of Western events, and will constitute a key without the pos session of which no future historian need attempt the task of a chronicler. It would require more space and time than I can at this moment command to throw full light upon this subject; but in con nection therewith I may remark that the true great ness and goodness of General Lees character is in no way made more apparent than by stating the fact that the army over which he has so long presided has, comparatively speaking, no secret and mysteri ous history of its own, whereas the Western army reveals a tissue of intrigues, quarrels, self-seekings, and recriminations which are enough to sicken the heart of any patriotic man. It is my belief (es I have often said before) that the Confederate ermy of the West was originally composed of vastly inferior material to that which constituted the Confederate army of the East. Moreover, in regard to the Federal armies precisely the reverse of this state ment is the truth. The best Confederate army (that of Virginia) was opposed to the worst Federal army (the Grand Army of the Potomac); the best troops, on the other hand, that the Federals have sent into the field were opposed to the Confederate army, which has successively obeyed Sidney Johnson, Beauregard, Bragg, Johnston, and Hood, and which falling from its originally low standard, seems to have deteriorated step by step as it was tossed sue. cessively from one commander to another. It has been the fashion, since the fall of Atlanta and the disasters which have attached to this luck less army under the command of Hood, to assert that, if the command had been left undisturbed in Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's hands no such disasters wcu'd have occurred. It is not denied by the parti sans of Gen. Johnston that Atlanta would have fallen in any case, but it is asserted that, after its fall, Gen. Johnston would have effected marvels. I confess that I feel myself wholly unable to take this view of the case. If Johnston had been left in command, Atlanta would certainly have fallen iu July instead of falling as it did on Sept. 2. It is difficult to appre ciate the value and importance of the six weeks thus gained by Hood. Those six weeks threw Sherman's success so far back into the year that no fresh Western campaign on a grand scale was possible in 1831 for the Yankees. It has been said that it was a singular and unprecedented fact that, in spite of Johnson's incessant retreats, his army continued to place the utmost faith in him, and that it was never:demeralized. I answer that his army was de moralizA, and that because it was demoralized it took pleasure in and approved the retrograde tactics of General Johnston. It was easy for it, after it found that Hood intended to expose it to nothing but hard kncolo, and that a large party in the country resented the removal of Johnston, to ex claim, "We will not fight under this man; give us back Johnston." It is my belief that in all his tory few commanders have ever assumed the re sponsibility of leading an army under more unfa vourable and discouraging circumstances than those which surrounded Hood when put in command in July last. His army had had its morale insensibly sapped by the caution and frigidity of his prede cessor. It was the general cry of grumblers, of all who lova to find fault, of all who have a grudge against President Davie, thLit Johnston was one of the greatest generals of all time, that hie army loved and trusted him, and that to separate such a general from such an army could result in nothing but disaster to it and to the ecuotry. There is nothing wonderful in the fact that gn army whose spirit and morale were low should love a general like Johnston, who cif little else tt-an fail back, r.nd whose high reputation for rersonal courage and for ability shielded bath hirasulf and his army from any imputations. But I think there are at this moment few well wishers to the Confederacy who do not believe (whatever they may have thought a month ago) that the change from John ston to Hood under Beauregard (which is tat pre sent the t xaet posilion of afairL-) is a charge for the2better. It was scucely to be expected that the dissatis faction of the general public, and of a large or tion of the newspaper press, should not find an echo in the breasts of some of Hood's subordinate gene rals.. Hood himself was young, and far inferior iu military rank to some of these over whose heads he was put. He was bereft of his right leg and of a portion of the bone of his left arm, and was, in the estimation of some, pro tanto inferior to a sound man. Consequently, there have since he took the command been bickerings and heartburnings among officers in high places, which nave added grievous 4 to the demoralisation of the army. It is nut necea.. sary to say more now on this sutject than that ie my belief Atlanta would never have fallen had every man in Hood's army, officer end private, striven to do his whole duty strenuously. It is impossible, however, now to regret that Atlanta should have fallen. The indications are that its fall is going to be one of the greatest blessings to the Confederates that has occurred since the commencement of the war, as I will subsequently explain. But in order to reap these benefits, which seem now to be like fruit ripe for the pluckirr g, it is necessary that there should be no such lack of spirit and earnestness as pervaded portions of Hood's army at the commence ment of September, and it is my hope that a new spirit has now possessed it, for the following reasons. It must be known to your readers before the ar rival of this letter that President Davis had just re turned to Richmond, after a visit to Georgia: The result of his visit is that General Beauregard is put in command of the whole of the South-west of the Confederacy on this side of the Mississippi, just as General Lee is in command of Virginia and North Carolina. It must be owned that the arduous task assigned to General Beauregad is " periculosre plenum opus alt to ;" but my belief is that of all men in the Confederacy, he is, after General Lee, the fittest for the place. It is no secret that the con tact into which Beauregard has lately been thrown with Lee has contributed to elevate him greatly in Lee's estimation. Perhaps the brightest attribute of Beauregard's military genius is that his views of campaigns, of strategy, and of large systems of de fence are wide, far reaching, and comprehensive. Ho has benefited by this war in experience and practical knowledge as much as any distinguished officer who has been engaged in it, and there is in him no die. position to intrigue, to work secretly and indirectly by inspiration of newspapers, or to sin against any of the axioms prescribed by the code for the guid• ance of great soldiers in all ages. Moreover, there attaches to Beauregard, as there attached to Stone wall Jackson, a kind of electric popularity, which is of wonderful value to a general who commands mer curial and undisciplined soldiers like these Confe derates. His name will be to Good's army a tower of strength ; the advantage of ceusulting with him on all etrategicil questions will be greatly prized by Hood; and I anticipate from the union of 13cau regard and Hood as many a ivantagcs as are popu larly attributed in the North to the union of Grant and Meade. But the visit of Mr Davis to Georgia has elevated the morale of Hood's army in other ways. He has assigned to Gen. Hardee (on able and admirable soldier, but indisposed to act under Heed, to whom, if Hardee had accepted the command of the Western army offered to him last autumn, he might now have been giving orders) a separate command. He has inspirited and invigorated the entire population of Georgia, indisposed them to give heed to the factions of which, since the first days of the Confederacy, the soil of Georgia has been the scene, and set them heartily to HIE SUN, LONDOS', SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1864. the proF,ecution of the only important business which is now before them—that is to say, of the war. But, above all things, he has raised the spirit of Hood's army ; he has taught it to entertain misgivings as to the policy of always falling back, and has reconciled it to its present manly and enterprising commander. Nor is the re ward which this hitherto unsuccessful army is likely to reap far distant or long deferred. I have the best authority for saying that the boldest move which has as yet been atteropted in this war—the move by which Hood threw his army from the south to the north of Atlanta, and fixed his claws upon the line of Sherman's communications—is of Hood's sole origination. It remains to be seen whether, in the event of Sherman's adopting almost the only course which seems open to him—l mean in the event of hie attacking Hood behind his intrenchments—the much abused Confederate army of the West will strike a blow which, if successful, will do more to end the war than dozens of such battles as were fought in 1861 and 1862. It is my belief that Hood's army, inspirited by the manifest sagacity which is disclose:lin the move which it hpas just made, will prove itself worthy of its vigorous young com mander, and will gain for itself and for him a repu• eclipse the comparative failures of t t a h t r i :e n a w nd hi a ch h w alt i ' l y i ears. If ever there was a war in which laudace, l'audace, toujours l'audace should be the motto of Southern generals, it is the war in which we are here engaged. The two most success ful generals of this war, Stonewall Jackson and Lee, are the rashest; and the present promising and dar ing move of Hood will prove (unless I am mistaken) before October has closed that it is only by rashness that telling and staggering blows can be dealt. The details of the movement by which Hood de scribed wellnigh three-fourths of a circle, and swung his army round Sherman, are described to me as having been very skilfully executed. Leaving the railroad which runs south between Atlanta and Macon, Hood seized possession of the railroad which, running in a south-westerly direction, cons netts Atlanta with Montgomery, as though he wished to bar Sherman's passage to the latter city. After fixing himself on this line he made great show of vigorously intrenching himself, and secretly threw his pontoons across the Chattahoochie River, the course,of which lays a little distant from his left. He was not disturbed by any reconnaissance or scouting party of Sherman's. It may be that here after Sherman will disclose as much strategic abi lity as he has heretofore displayed pertinacity while advancing on Atlanta ; but it roust be confessed that the appearances are that he showed blind and arrogant depreciation of his enemy and culpable inactivity about watching that enemy after the Fe derals had once got possession of Atlanta. It seems to me hardly conceivable that succour to Sherman can come from the North before his supplies are so reduced as to compel him to issue forth from his stronghold of Atlanta. The most vigorous and for midable of all the Confederate cavalry chiefs— General Forrest—has long been "on the rampage" along the skirts of Tennessee, Northern Alabama, and Northern Mississippi. Our last accounts re present Forrest as having retired before a very large force of Federals into Northern Mississippi, and it is reasonable to anticipate that if his pursuers turn southwards towards Hood's rear Forrest will hang on their skirts and harass and delay their march by every means in his power. The vast distances of the South over which Sherman has triumphed in his advance on Atlanta are likely to exercise the same unfavourable influence upon him in his present situ ation as they have never failed to exercise upon all other Federal commanders who have thrust them selves deep into the bowels of their enemy's bound. ess and desolate country. The actual line held by the army of Hood, whose head-quarters are at Dallas, commences a few miles north of the Marietta, where his left rests on the railroad, with his centre at Dallas, and his right reaching down towards Alabama, whence he draws his main supplies. By his adventurous move he has transferred the scene of military operations once more into that rugged and mountainous country from which, in the opinion of soldiers, Johnston never should have allowed himself to be driven into the plain around Atlanta. Never was there appa rently such an instance as regards warlike opera- Hong, of the truth of Juvenat's lines ! Evcrtere domes totas optentibus ipsis Di We have all reed with what shouts and acclamaa tions,with what pealing of bells and what discharges of cannon, Sherman's " great Union victory'' and the "capture of Atlanta" were celebrated in the Northern States—yet there is reason to believe that the Confederates are justified in thinking that out of this capture of Atlanta will arise for their enemies such discomfiture as has not been hitherto parallelled in the course of this war. The disparity between the armies of Sherman and Hood is, if I am rightly informed, by no means considerable. From this passage of the war the Federa!s will learn what they have been told a theusend times by all spectators—thateritories like these to take towns in the dispassionate interior ofv a hostilest t South ern States is one thing, to hold them is another. I have reason for thinking there is a gross ez' aggeration about the numbers which are ordinarily assigned as estimates of Grant's strength—nor can the is composed compare with the material ia materiallof hi which advanced on Richmond under M'Clellan, or oven of that army maw of which hie ha t army ay which fought the battles of May last. There never was a moment when more deserters came into the Confederate lines, and it is observed that these de serters are not as of.yore chiefly Irishman, Englisha men, or Germans, but they number among them many Northerners of American birth. Two nights ago 10 deserters escaped from Grant's meshes and surrendered themselves to Lee, of whom upwards of 00 were men born upon this continent. Strenuous efforts arc being made to swell Lee's numbers by calling into the ranks detailed men, by substituting negroes for white teamsters, and by getting into the service that large body of men who have got " State exemptions" and have hitherto escaped con scription. It is estimated that in the two States of Virginia and North Carolina there are not less than 30,000 men between the ages of 18 and 45 who have got exemptions from Governor Smith or Governor Vance. But the most significant fact, as indicating that this struggle of the South for independence will never be abandoned for years to come, is that everywhere—on the streets, in the railroad cars, and among private circles—the propriety of arming and putting the negro into the ranks is eagerly discussed. There has always i n the South been a sentimental antipathy work of men, or, in o th er wor d s, t o seeking from a w and feeble, nnarlike, to setting children to do the submissive race the exhibi tion of passions and the exorcise of qualities which have been always regarded as the attributes of a dominant and superior race. But it remains if ecca. sion demands for the South to exhibit how the negro when placed side by side with the master whom he has known and loved since the infancy of both will fight f or t h e ma i ntenan ce of slavery against his brethren wh o seek to compass its forcible abolition. The wor d s recen tly employed by Mr Lincoln to the eff ect t h at be had 200,000 negroes under arms, an d that h e should like to see how any Northern m a n w ho proposed to employ only white soldi ers wou ld car ry on this war, have sunk deep into m any a Southern he art. It will be a strange coroll ary to t hi s wa r if the campaign of 1865 finds 20,000 arme d neg roes from the North trying conclusions with 20,000 armed negroes from the South, and if the ocean of blood which h as already been spilt i s d ar k ene d by a fresh current to be added to it:next year, flowing from the veinslof that hapless rac e w hi c h see ms likely to be involved in a conflict whese priz:s it cannot a ppreciate. whose passions it cannot sha r e and [ADVERTISEMENT ]-I.lolloWay'S Ointment and rills, — Old Sores, Wounds', and Ulcers, —The readiness with which Holloway's unguent removes all obstructions in the circulation of the vessels and lymphatics explains their ir resistible influence in healing old sores, bad wounds, and indolent ulcers. To insure the desired effect, the skin sur rounding the diseased part should be fomented, dried, and immediately well rubbed with the ointment. This will give purity to the foul blood and strength to the weakened nerves, the only conditions necessary for the cure of all those hideous ulcerations which render life almost intoler able. No sooner is this ointment's protective power exerted than the destructive process ceases and the construetive business begins--new healthy growths appear to fill up the lately painful excavated pit, ' Alleged Exteisive Frauds. A well-dressed man, named William Miller, described as of Gray's-lodge, Grays, Essex, was yesterday placed at the bar of the Mansion-house, before Mr Alderman Stone, who was sitting for the Lord Mayor, charged with having em bezzled various sums of money, amounting to over £5OO, received by him on account of his employer, Mr Daniel D. Dymes, merchant, 9, Mineing-lano. Mr Humphreys, of the firm of Humphreys and Morgan, appeared to prosecute; and Mr Gel° appeared on the part of the prisoner. Mr Humphreys gave a brief outline of the facts of the case, from which it appeared that the prisoner was manag ing clerk to the prosecutor, and in that capacity had the general control of the business, and had authority to sign for prosecutor cheques and bills for business purposes. Mr Dymes left home in June last in consequence of ill-health, leaving the management of the business in the hands of the prisoner. Mr Dymes returned to business on the 4th Octo ber last, and saw the prisoner there on that day. He went again on the sth, expecting to find the prisoner there, but he did not make his appearance, and it appeared that he had absconded, and wrote a letter to Mr Dymes, in which he said that in consequence of circumstances which had oc curred in his absence he could not return to business. The prisoner went to America, and Mr Dymes a day or two back received information that he was returning, and communi cated with the police, and the prisoner was apprehended by Detective-sergeant Haggett, on Thur:day, as he was leav ing the ship. It appeared that the prisoner drew a bill on his brother in Madras, which he signed for prosecutor in Mr Byrnes' name, for 5,000 rupees. This bill was sold to the Chartered Bank of India, and realised £lB6, which was paid by a cheque, and was placed to the debt of Mr Dymes at the Union Bank. The cheque was crossed, which Mr Humphreys observed was probably the reason of its being paid in, for it appeared that on the 3rd October the prisoner directed one of the clerks to fill up a cheque for exactly the same amount, to which he signed Mr Dymes's name by procuration. This cheque was cashed by one of the clerks, who handed the money to the prisoner, who ab sconded with that sum. Independent of that, since MrDymes had been back to business he had had claims made upon him to the extent of between £30,000 and £lO,OOO, of which he knew nothing whatever, and Mr Humphreys said Mr Dymes really at the moment he was speaking did not know in what position he stood—whether he was a sound man or not. Not only had the prisoner entered into transactions to the amount he had mentioned without the knowledge of Mr Dymes, but it appeared from inquiries which had been made that he had entered into speculations on his own account to the amount of about £lB,OOO, and had drawn cheques on Mr Dymes's private account to pay the deposits to the different brokers. The prisoner had loft no account whatever cr any docu ments art ce by which Mr Dymes could have been made acquainted with his transactions. Mr Dymes was called, and said prisoner was in his service as managing clerk, and had authority to sign cheques and bills for all purposes of trade. He had a salary of £6OO a year, and had been in his service about three years and a half. In consequence of ill-health he went away in June or the beginning of July last, leaving the prisoner to manage his business, and returned permanently to business on the4th October last. Ho had been to the c ffice, however, several times between those dates. The prisoner had the general control of his business, subject to his communicating with him from time to time and advising him in respect of any new transactions which might be entered into. He constantly received communications from the prisoner upon the subject of his business. The prisoner had no authority to draw money from his bankers and appropriate it to his own use. The prisoner had authority to draw his own salary. The prisoner had no authority to draw the cheque produced or to appropriate the money he received to his own use. The cheque was dated October 3, and drawn by the prisoner by procuration far Mr Dymes for £486 19s 7d on the Union Bank of London. When ho returned to business on Oct. 4 he commenced going through his affairs with the prisoner, and on the 5,h when he went he found the prisoner was absent. He did not know at the time nor had he any rea son to believe that the prisoner would not be there ; and he had never seen anything of him from that time until he saw him in custody. On Oct. she received a letter from him, which he had not then with him. Since his return to business claims had been made upon him by various brokers to the amount of between £30,000 and £40,000, the greater part of which were quite without his knowledge, and took him very much by surprise. Some of the transactions were known to him and wore entered in the books, but they were by far the lesser part, and would be covered by £lO,OOO or £12,000. There was no record in the effice or dockets by which he could trace one of tho transactions. The prisoner had no authority in transactions ef his own to draw upon witness's account in respect of these transactions. Early in the week a telegram was sent to his (face addressed to Mrs Miller, by which he learnt that the prisoner was re turning to England, and he accordingly communicated with the police with a view to having him apprehended. Mr Gole, on being asked whether ho wished to put any questions to the witness, said he should like to knew what charge he was called upon to answer, whether Mr Hum phreys was going simply upon the £5OO bill or upon the whole of the transactions he had alluded to in his opening. Mr Humphreys said he was not in a condition to proceed with any charge other thin the £5OO at present. On being cross-examined Mr Dymes said ho did on his return find at his office a share in a coffee plantation. The amount paid up was £6OO, but he believed the value was merely nominal at present. He did not know whether the prisoner had transferred it to him, He believed the transfer was bhink. It could only have been left there .by the pri soner. He biancelf had paid the £6OO for the prisoner. He had not had ary communication from the prisoner. llad told him ho had transferred the share to him es a set off against the £5OO. There were also EO shares in the Essex Water Company, and he believed the amount paid up was £BO. lie had not heard from any one what the prisoner left shares at his office for. He considered them to go in reduc tion of the very large debt account which appeared against the prisoner. On being re-examined, witness said he believed the £lB6 had not been appropriated to his business. George B. Sandmann said he was bookkeeper and cashier in the office of Mr Dymes. On the 3d October he received directions from the prisoner to fill up the check produced for £lB6. The signatures "D. D. Dymes" and " W. Miller" were in the prisoner's handwriting. The money had not, as far as he knew, been used in Mr Dymes's bus:ness. At the time the cheque was drawn the prisoner said it was to pay some bills for his brother in Madras. Witness explained that the prisoner's brother was a merchant in Madras, and his business in London was conducted through Mr Dymes. Cross-examined—The prisoner stated ho drew the clique on his brother. He was accustomed to do so, with Mr Dymes's sanction. When the prisoner told him to fill ur the cheque it did not occur to him anything was wrong. Thomas Wilson, senior clerk in the service of Mr Dymes, said he cashed the cheque produced, and handed the mone3, £lOO in notes and the remainder in coin, to the prisoner. The prisoner was remanded upon this evidence, Mr Al derman Stone declining to ad.nit him to bail. Heartless Robbery from a Returned Gold - Digger. (From the Liverpool Mercury.) About five years ago, a Cornish miner, named Thomas Rowe, left his native country to try his fortune at the gold diggings at San Francisco, California. He appears to have been successful, for after working in the mines some time he saved about £l2O. A few months ago he left California to return to England via New York. He arrived in Liverpbol on Friday, the 14th ult., by the City of Baltimore, accom panied by a. man named William Thomas, who had left Cornwall with him, and w ho had been his companion at the diggings and during the voyage home. While on the pas sage from New York to Liverpool Rowe was taken ill, and when he was put on shore from the steamer he was so bad as to be scarcely able to speak. Notwithstanding his weak condition, it is stated that his companion Thomas left him to his fate, and proceeded on his journey to Cornwall. While on the landing- stage Rowe was "picked up" by two crimps, who took him to a common lodginghouse, No. 6, Carlton street, kept by an old man named Thomas Elliot. Ho re mained thero all night, but was removed on the following morning to the Brownlow-hill workhouse, where he died the same day. A short time after he expired his wife, who had heard of his arrival from America, came to Liverpool from Tywardreath, in Cornwall, where she had been living dur ing his absence. The poor woman, as may be imagined, was much affected on learning that her husband had died just before her arrival. She was told at the workhouse that her husband had left no effects. On Wednesday morning, a communication was received at the Detective Office, from the superintendent of police at Tywardreath, which had been written under the direction of Sir Coleman Rashleigh, a mai;istrato for the county of Cornwall, stating that from evidence received it was believed that Rowe had been robbed in Liverpool cf a belt which he wore round his waist, and which contained £l2O in gold, and some articles of jewelry, The matter was placed in the hands of Detective Inspector Carlisle and Detective Smith, who, after making inquiries, apprehended the lodgingbouse keeper Thomas Elliott and his wife Margaret on a charge of robbing Rowe of his money. When taken into custody £4 19s was found in possession of the man, and subsequently the officers found, on searching their house, £B9 in gold concealed under the woodwork of the door. On making further inquiries they!ound two valu able gold rings and a gold nugget at the house of Elliott's grand-daughter, who resided in Regent-street. Elliott is 82 and his wife 78 years of age. They will be brought be fore Mr &dais to-day (Friday), eherged with stealing the money and jewelry from Rowe. It is stated that Thomas Rowe's companion was apprehended at Tywardreath on suspicion of having committed the rGbbery. THE LEEDS BANKING COMPANY.—Mr Vice- Chancellor Kindersley has appointed Tuesday, the 15th inst., to settle the list of contributors of this banking com pany. As the full work of settling the whole list will pro bably occupy some days, the first call upon such contribu tors can scarcely be made in the present month. It is expected to be made in the present year, and a first dividend to be paid early in the ensuing year. The list of contributors will be settled befoore the Vice-Chancellor at his chambers, 3, Stono's-buildings, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TimEs.-=lt is difficult to conceive an act of more cruel kindness than the attempt of the German Legal Protection Society to obtain the reprieve of Muller. It was for the very purpose of discouraging such efforts that Baron Martin, with true humanity, solemnly declared his own concurrence and that of the Chief Baron with the verdict of the jury, and earnestly warned the unhappy man to expect no mercy on this side the grave. So long as death is the doom of murder, anything which tends to un. settle the condemned criminal's mind in the interval between sentence and execution is in itself deplorable. It may be justified by a firm conviction that he is the innocent victim of the law—of that we speak not at present—but that it must needs distract his attention from those thoughts which ought to en. gross it, in prospect of eternity, will hardly be dis puted. Such is the inconsistency of human nature that men conscious of guilt, and on the very eve of confession, will catch at mere straws of hope, and frame to themselves the flimsiest sophisms by way of self exculpation. The infamous Palmer, hardened and desperate as he was, protested to the last that he did not poison Cook with strychnine, and seemed to hug the idea that he was unjustly convicted, beciuse, forsooth, there was some reason to believe that he had also poisoned him with antimony. With such a state of conscience, repentance, in any sense moral or religious, is wholly incompatible. No man can throw himself unreservedly on the Divine com passion who is anxiously seeking loopholes to escape . from the righteous penalty of human justice. No thing, therefore, can warrant a petition to the Home Secretary, otherwise so mischievous, except a well founded confidence in its merits and in its probable success. Can any such confidence be entertained by any rational being in the case of Muller ? Surely not, unless, indeed, new facts of grave importance have been brought to light since the trial. Even when an ex post facto discovery of this kind is alleged, we are bound to regard it with great suspicion. If adequate time has been allowed for the preparation of a prisoner's defence, and all the resources of advocacy have been exhausted in his behalf, it is a tremendous responsibiiity to interfere with the verdict, even on new evidence. Were such inter■ ferences more frequent, it would soon become the practice to keep back testimony that might break down on cross-examination, and virtually to reserve a supplementary defence for the tribunal of the Home Secretary. Still, it is just possible, though highly improbable, that the key to a mystery may be found after the judicial inquiry is closed, and in these rare instances we must rejoice sentence is not absolutely irrevocable. Before, however,we consider whether this, or anything approaching to this, can be truly alleged in Muller's favour, it is right that we should once nine bring the cumulative proofs of his guilt within the compass of a single view. Per baps we shall best appreciate them by clearly con ceiving what it is necessary to believe in order to establish the supposition of his innocence, We must believe, then, in the first place, if we trust Mr Walker,the hatmaker, that the real murderer wore one of the only two hats manufactured by him with a lining of a certain pattern, Muller being the un doubted owner of the other. We must believe next that, by the most unlucky accident in the world, Muller had also purchased a hat by the same maker as the one employed by Mr Briggs, a hat exactly , corresponding in shape bud size to that of the de ceased, and of which Muller has never attempted to explain the acquisition. We must believe that some malignant chance led to this hat being cut down in just such a way as would account for the only dif ference between it and Mr Briggs', in just such a way as a tailor would have done the job, but not as a hatter or as an awkward hand would have done it, and in just such a way as would have obliterated Mr Briggs' name. We must believe that by another series of coincidences the watch and chain of Mr Briggs came innocently into Muller's possession, the latter so soon after the murder that he was found disposing of it on the Monday morning following the fatal Saturday night. All this we must believe, at the least—for we have omitted minor details—re membering, too, that the discovery of a hat like Mr Briggs' and of a watch known to be Mr Briggs' on Muller's person was not the source of suspicion against him, but, on the contrary, was the predicted scone! of previous disclosures with respect to the other hat and the chain. But a severer strain on our credulity remains to be applied. We must be lieve, with all these damning circumstances staring him in the face and marking him as the murderer, Muller was unable to produce a single piece of posi tive evidence worthy to be weighed in the opposite scale, to furnish any clue to the labyrinth of pre sumptions against him, or to clear up his own move ments about the time of the murder, except by the suicidal suggestion of a transparently hollow alibi. With this dead weight of probability against them the indefatigable friends of Muller undertake to make out a case for respiring his execution. What are, or rather what can be, their grounds for repre senting this degree of moral certainty as " incon , elusive ?" We do not, of course, pretend to be in the secrets of the German Legal Protection Society, but, so far as we are aware, they are of the follow ing kind. Eaving obtained strong testimonies from various quarters to Muller's character, they lay great stress on these to show that " he was not the kind of man to commit so atrocious a deed. In formation is also said to have been procured tend ing to verify his description of the man from whom, according to his own story, he bought the watch at the London Decks. In the meantime, a person residing at Edmonton has come forward to state that, some hours after the murder was committed, a cab containing four persons drove past his house and threw a parcel against his window so as to break it. The parcel, on being opened, proved to contain a pair of trousers, and it is said that these trousers, on examination, were found stained with blood,, In connection with this, a chemist living near the Victoria Park states that a young man, apparently drunk, and with a wound on the back of the head, came to his shop, with one or two com panions, about half-past 10 or 11 On the same night. We have thought it our duty to mention these particulars, valeant quantum, that our readers may form their own judgment upon them. It is equally our duty to express our own strong sense of their entire worthlessness for the purpose of shaking the verdict against Muller. Murders are seldom com mitted by the people whom one might expect to commit them. There is no class of professional homicides as there is of professional thieves ; and the blackest names in the "Newgate Calender'' are those of criminals who never were known to the police before they terrified the whole community by the one act which raised them to that had eminence. As for the Victoria Park and Edmonton stories, if there is any truth in them, they only tend to sup port a faint conjecture that more persons than one may have been concerned in the murder. The evia dance of Muller's guilt remains where it was, and it will not surprise us if the researches of the German Legal Protection Society should contribute, if pose Bible, to strengthen it. It is certain that the alibi, confirming as it did, with a very slight variation, the theory of the prosecution, promoted the ends of justice rather than the acquittal of the prisoner. Let these well-meaning but ill-advised gentlemen rest content with that result. Their professed aim was to aid in proving Muller "either innocent or guilty." They have helped materially to prove him guilty, and by further meddling, if they have no better excuse than what we have already men tioned, they will only do him the worst service that can be done to a felloweChristian during the last hours of his existence. POST.—The announcement that the Warrior has within the present week been taken into Portsmouth harbour previous to being paid off and dismantled will probably excite no little astonishment. It is true this step was resolved on by the Admiralty some time since ; but as comparatively few of the public are, as the Americans say, " posted'' in naval matters, the intimation that the Warrior has ceased to be an effective vessel of war at the dis posal of the Government must occasion conside rable surprise. The ways of the Admiralty are so thoroughly inscrutable that we will not attempt to divine the reasons that have prompted it to order a ship to be dismantled which was generally supposed to be one of the most efficient in the service. The reasons are doubtless weighty, and we will assume that the course now taken is that most conducive to the interests of the public service. But the fact that a vessel built at an enormous cost, almost new, and which has never up to the present done any service which could not have been just as well performed by the oldest tub in her Majesty's dockyards, is on the point of being dismantled, is one which cannot fail to excite comment. It is necessary, we suppose, that certain alterations should be made either in respect to the build of the vessel, or her fittings, or her rigging, or perhaps all three, and for this puns pose sho must be taken into dock and dismantled. But why those alterations should be necessary so soon after she was placed in commission, and why the public money should be, to all appearances, use lessly expended in the construction of ships which are no sooner afloat than they must be redocked, and in many instances rebuilt, are questions which will occur to the minds of those who think that the money spent on the construction of the Warrior ought to have secured for the public a serviceable ship. To these questions the answers which must be given are, it must be confessed, not as satisfactory as could be wished. The science of shipbuilding for purpo-es of war must at all times be in a transi tionary state. Vessels are constructed to resist those means of attack with which their builders are fami liar; but when those means are improved, the con struction of ships must of necessity undergo modifi cation. It might be suggested that the same train of reasoning would equally apply to the science of shipbuilding for commercial purposev ; tlzt although —,—.. ......-- 0 , 0 that science is also transitionary, the sh i P ;do the transport of merchandise may be employo she is worn out, whilst the vessel ot war u 'ilt` at once useless in the presence of more fi e , rivals. Now, it has happened that, since 6t mination of the wars of the first French _ 4 4 the art of building ships of war has uni!oof such frequent changes that the maritime . cj i of the world have, though during a P elt il uninterrupted peace, been compelled to rebuil d e it navies several times. When steam supere eti od exclusive eae of sails, and paddles were can to the best, if not the only, means by whic h , f t could be applied as a motive power, es re ,j'l, vessel turned out of a Government docky aru sr paddle-box steamer. In time paddle-hele,e place to screws, and again the fleets of Bal.oa remodelled. Soon after it was discovered t , power of ships was by no means propert ies their size, and thereupon the ships.of-tb.e;el which maritime nations took so great a 101:',4 for whose construction they paid no inc ons To sums of money, were cut down and reduce d „y frigate size. Then came the age of armouvAre‘ vessels of war, The employment of iron sp u d as a means of protection to the hulls of , 1 occasioned the most serious and the most eui . all the changes in the science of shipbuilding; have been effected in late years. S 3 soon 0 1 , came manifest that a single armoureplateud could, with comparative impunity, destrol:i tire fleet of ships unprovided with similar 0 7 / defence, it became incumbent on every 01 nation desirous of maintaining its previous i on the seas to construct a sufficient number new class of vessels to compensate for the , 0 inutility of their existing fleets. When tli ligence of the exploits of the Confederate ilti, the Merrimac, in Hampton roads reached tliPli try, the limes stated that the navy of Greoelt tain was virtually reduced to a single vei l i e Warrior, the ship now about to be dismaoetj . although this was the language of exegger f r furnishes a tolerable index of the state 1/40 opinion on the respective merits of w oe " iron-plated ships of war. The French Ger even before the incomparable advantages o "t,' clad frigates were thus conclusively de men 'ol had set about the construction of seversis description of vessel, and we were, s il i matter of precaution, compelled to foll°l, example. At the close of the Parliswo, Session of 1861 a supplemental vote of a t li of a million was granted for this purpas k e ii i, House of Commons without even the setuu ri, opposition. The Warrior was the first of lico, and it is not to be wondered at that elle i i: proved absolutely perfect. Since she 10 5 , 1. 0, we have improved upon our first model ; 00 '4, a perfectly new ship, it is considered that avd now be submitted to alterations which ea r t li . experience teaches us are essential. This igyi e xplanation which can be given for the orde'hil has been issued by the Admiralty, and l o gi now on the point of being acted upon. Ai r° ,,i to the art of building armour-plated vetluril proficiency in it, as in all others,must be de s o ) chased. But costly experiments should e?,l watched, and no department of the State l os i in costlier ones than the Admiralty. lh a , /1 „4 nually voted for the navy estimates are I'd yet, nevertheless, we always seem to be ago the reconstruction of our fleets. Vessels ar e o i an enormous expense, sent to sea for a Atilt then docked, then dismantled, and then i iii t O again. If any particular case is isolaterimi others, it may be easy to demonstrate that la taken by the Admiralty is unexcepti ons bd one is nevertheless induced to question Te o many costly failures cannot be avoided. 4, lag behind in the terrible race of comp etit ! ' o 4 is forced upon us by other States, but it 0 10 1 of consideration whether we cannot afford til l occasionally before committing ourselves ifli cular schemes whose value has not been 01 01 tested. We cannot suppose that even e+ armour-plated vessel we have placed upon '7, will never be surpassed, but before buildingootl like her we ought to be tolerably W ell ° c e that she and they will answer all the Pa,,P o i which they are intended. We must pal order to maintain that naval supeems e l "d i sary to our national independence, but 1 ; 0 1 1 right to demand from those whom w e t 0 stewards that the money which we g ran ngly shall not be thrown away. COUNTRY MARKETS• LIVERPOOL—FRIDAv. of . ./ P" Wo have had rather a small attendance ti we our corn exchange this morning, and with 10 74„ for wheat, tho transactions have been at Tue o r Flour in moderate demand at prices mtlC ll J ll ,O late. Oats brought full prices, and oatnie‘.. 0%4 load more money. Barley , beans, and pea , 4,u price. Indian corn neglected, but at fully JP tations. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. Not a great quantity of wheat on offer, whic h t o slow demand at recent currencies. In other O n e ie trade was dull, and former prices slightly on ' r 5! —White wheat, 42s to 445; red, 38s to 40s P°3o Barley, malting, 30s to 355; grinding, 29s t ° Oats, 18s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, 01 (1 1 thi qr.; new, 36s to ns. LINCOLN--FRIDAY. _ 01 There was the usual show of wheat a t oat 0 day, for rhich the demand ruled healthy; oat Barley a fair show, and best sorts fully WO" rates—seconds dull and lower in price. din' i White wheat new, , 40s to 44s I Barley, grin.. Red do. 3Bs to 40s Oats, - old , .. • ' Old white 428 to 47s New do ........ Red do. 39s to 433 1 Beans.. ....... ' • .' Barley, malting 33s to 31s / B ean s, neW.. • ' BURTON. ON-TRENT —TunnSl3l`l:4ol: Old white wheat..44s to 48s I Old red wheat; ''.3 11 1 New do. ..40s to 45s I New do. 1 Malting barley....32s to 34s I Oats .......... Grinding d0.....28s to 30s I Beans ..... WAKEFIELD—FRID.A.4. „ago The wheat trade is slow, and there is no 0;0107 vious values. Barley meets a steady sale- -- s ce lb cheaper. In other articles no change. Averages for the wee Wheat 1623 qrs., at ........ Oats lB4 1818 ........ 40 0 190 ......•• 310 Peas Beans 34 .......• 39$ ........ „, . the dose of the 7 l walls 1 COAL M. Moen of Coal per Ton at a. d. Baddle'sWest Hartley 20 3 .0' Cowpen Hartley 20 -3 Hatton ........ . 1 Eden Main 2l 6 Tunstall •• • • :,0 1 Llaswell ....... .t, 16 ; sold, 16' Ships at marks Foreign Mail Packet Lie* MAILS DUE. ,0 Australia and Mauritius, vi a Southampton.** .- 0 via Marseilles ...... • ~ Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet.•• • ;,, Cape of Good Hope, Ascensio n , and St. liele ll ,a , China, Penang, and Singapore, v i a S o uthamP"' via Marseille ° . , 01 Falkland Islands . ........... ~, Gibraltar, via Southampton .. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via SouthamP toll ::: via Marseilles'',, India (Bombay), via Southampton ......... • ~, via Marseilles .............. Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via S ou th am pton.••• via Marseilles ..•••' Newfoundland ............... .............. , . 1 Oporto and Vigo .. .... ' ~' V . S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet:* 0 , by U.S. paek al Sok by Canadian P a All parts of West Indies, including Chili, r erti, California. and British Columbia.. ......... 1 4 9 g A tt oe) London: Printed and Pi - Wished by WiL QN 0% of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Ins Straril, In the Precinct of the SAYl,: t s kladdlf4e;—Saturday, November 5, umna, renang, ana amgapore, via Soutnaiiir ,• via Marseille ° 04 ,1 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton ........ JO India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southan l l 3 " -.‘ rit via Marseillose'lt India (Bombay), via Southampton ......... ' . .. 41 # via Marseilles .............. ,;st Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton.•'' . 4 9 via Marseilles ..• •'' 0 Newfoundland ........................•••' . .r Oporto and Vigo . . U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet: . . i t i by U.S. paeke",,Vo i l.'4 by Canadian P n .:', l , IP All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Ye' ) California. and British Columbia.. ......... Births. GILLSON.—On the Ist inst., at Caldecote) 4 1 Henry Gillson, of a son. id A i • efP , GROGAN.—On the Ist inst.. at Oak Villa, t O4 wife of Major C. E. Grogan, 14th Regiraell99/ GOULD.—On the 3d inst., at 60, Chichester of. burn park, W,, the wife of A. Gould, Eval Marriages. 4 „ 70 , 0 d STONE—HELPS.—On the 3d inst., at Bis'-`„,",31 , William Henry Stone, late Fellow of ~.. .lt ir t er i Cambridge, to Melicent, the second daub fic il., B 6 Helps, Esq., Clerk to H.M.'s Privy C (l .,, A r" 6 j909 WOOL—MARTIN.—On the 3d inst., at ",,, g e,,, „s' Mary, George Wool, Esq , Exmoor Gr a VV Frances, daughter of David Martin, Bo c il - Wainfleet. • , O i Deaths. 1 0" . f DIXON.—On the 3d inst., at Claphanii '''' P Chas. Dixon, R.E. ft 0 4.1 FAWCETT.—On the 3d inst., Win. Fav/c° - 9 ,pi Clarke Reuse, Sheffield, aged 58. i 0 1 f HARE.—On the 3d inst., Robert Hare, Ve""' :4 :4 lotte-street, Buckingham-gate, aged 00. _o HouGH.ToN.—On the 3d inst , at 22, Lorrar tr y, o f loway, Mr. Lucas Houghton, of 30, Pol l o f C. oli LAY.—On the 3d inst., Mr, Daniel Lag' 0 , heath, Hackney, aged 63. 43. MONTAGUE —On the 2d inst., atSSou the d, 1'4 , .1, aged 81. -Pl° °°' WoR ms.—On the 2d inst., at 28, Portla nd -d Mayer Worms, Esq., aged 34. _,t7'.i4